Acts 16 summary points

  • v 1 to 12 Paul circumcises Timothy to prevent problems from the Jews. The number of believers grows. Paul is asked in a vision to visit Macedonia and so comes to Philippi
  • v 13 to 15 Lydia and her household in Philippi are converted and baptised
  • v 16 to 24 Paul cures a mentally disturbed slave girl, but her owners are angry and contrive to get the apostles imprisoned
  • v 25 to 34 Paul and Silas, miraculously released from their prison chains, do not escape, but convert and baptise the jailer and his family
  • v 35 to 40 On being told they can be released from prison, Paul insists that the magistrates come and fetch them out as they are Romans

Timeline AD 60

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